> CALL FOR PAPERS - Reminder
>
>
> > Emotional Geographies
> >
> > An interdisciplinary conference on the place of emotions in everyday
> > life, hosted by The Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University,
> > 23rd-
> > 25th September 2002.
> >
> > Advisory Committee: Kay Anderson, Joyce Davidson, Rosaleen Duffy,
> Mary
> > Evans, Anthony Gatrell, Christine Milligan, Mick Smith, Susan Smith.
> >
> > Speakers / Sessions include:
> > Sara Ahmed - 'Communities that Feel: Intensities, Difference and
> > Attachment'
> > Liz Bondi - 'Counselling, Psychotherapy and Geographies of Care'
> > Erica Burman - 'Emotions in the Classroom'
> > Ian Craib - 'Headaches, Heartaches and Pains in the Arse'
> > Mike Hepworth - 'Ageing and the Emotions'
> > Val Plumwood - 'Sympathy and Solidarity with Nature'
> > Gillian Rose - 'Everybody's cuddled up and it's just really nice':
> > talking to mums about their family photos'
> > Carol Thomas - 'Disability and the Emotions'
> > John Urry - 'The Place of Emotions within Places'
> > Gill Valentine - 'I just felt different though for a long time I
> didn't
> > understand why': Emotional geographies of coming out as lesbian or gay'
> >
> > Call For Papers
> > Contributions to the conference will consist of 20 minute papers (15
> > for presentation, 5 for discussion). Potential contributors should submit
> > abstracts of up to 300 words, highlighting 3 key words, to the conference
> > organiser by 31st January 2002. All proposals will be reviewed by members
> of
> > the advisory committee, and notification of the outcome will be given by
> 31st
> > March 2002. A full conference outline can be found on the linked website
> > -http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ihr/joyce.conference - which will be
> regularly
> > updated with information on booking, accommodation and programme details.
> It
> > is
> > intended that a selection of papers from Emotional Geographies will form
> the
> > basis of an edited collection to be published in 2003.
> >
> > Potential Themes
> > This list of themes and topics for discussion is intended to be
> > suggestive rather than exhaustive, and contributions are invited on any
> area
> > of
> > relevance to Emotional Geographies.
> >
> > * The gender(ing) of emotions
> > * Consuming emotions: The role of foods and other 'goods' in everyday
> > life
> > * Ethnicity and emotions, cultural contrasts
> > * Therapeutic Landscapes
> > * Desire, sexuality and relationships
> > * The medicalization of emotions
> > * Emotional politics and the politics of emotion
> > * Emotions in counselling and psychoanalysis
> > * Creative passions: Emotion, aesthetics and the Arts
> > * Memory, emotion and the life-course
> > * Emotional attachment to the non-human world: Environmental protection
> > and direct action
> > * Institutionalised emotions: The academy and beyond
> > * Class, poverty and emotional 'well-being'
> > * Embodiment and emotions
> > * Domestic bliss? Emotional geographies of 'home'
> > * Disgust and the maintenance of boundaries
> > * Geographies of fear and hate
> > * Civilizing emotions
> > * Senses, emotions and metaphors
> > * Panic and postmodernity
> > * Irrationality and emotional selves
> > * The genealogy of emotions
> > * Urban stress, rural tranquillity?
> > * Agony and ecstasy: Drug and alcohol use for mood alteration
> >
> > Abstracts should be sent to:
> >
> > Joyce Davidson
> > The Institute for Health Research
> > Alexandra Square
> > Lancaster University
> > Lancaster LA1 4YT
> > United Kingdom
> > Tel: (00 44) 01524 592238
> > Fax: (00 44) 01524 592401
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> > Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ihr/joyce.conference
> >
> >
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